Garment.



PATENTED APR. 24, 1906v F. A. PLATZ.

GARMEN T.

APPLICATION FILED Mule, 1904.

m VEN 70H By Fran /c Paf @MMM A T roHNErs UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

atented April 24, 1906.

Application filed March 16,1904. Serial No. 198,381.

To (all whom, it Netty concer/L:

Beit known that 1, FRANK A. PLATZ, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garments, of which the following is a specification, suoli as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to childrens garments, and particularly to underwaists or undervests; and the object thereof is to provide a garment of this class which is strong and durable and which is provided with improved fastening devices and improved means for suspending' the lower garments therefrom, such means and devices being detachable from the garment, so as to prevent injury thereto when the garment is laundered, a further object being to provide improven'ients of this class which may be applied to shirts or shirt-waists and blouses; and with these and other objects in view the .invention consists of the construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

This invention is an improvement on that described and claimed in United States Letters Patent No. 690,768, granted to me January 7, 1902, and is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which- Figure l is a front view of an under vest or waist for children provided with my improvement; Fig. 2, a back view thereof g Fig. 3, an inside view showing the garment extended and the shoulder-strap portions broken, Fig. 4, a section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3,' Fig. 5, a section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 3 Fig. 6, a view similar to Fig. 5, but showing a modification, a part of the garment shown in Fig. 5 being omitted; Fig. 7, a view similar to Fig. 3, showing a part of a shirt-waist or similar garment with my improvement or a part thereof applied thereto; Fig. S, a section on the line S S of Fig. 7; Fig. 9, a front view showing a modification of the construction shown in 5, and Fig. l0 a side view thereof.

In the practice of my invention, as shown in Figs. l to el, inclusive, I provide a childs under waist or vest composed of a back a and side members c2, connected at c3 in the usual manner and provided with armholes cf, and in Fig. 3 of the drawings the shoulder-strap portions of this garment are broken or separated, as shown at c". The side portions a2 are adapted to be connected at the front by means of buttons a or in the usual or any preferred manner, and .in the form of construction shown the bottom portion of the under waist or vest is composed of a separate piece c7, secured to the back and sides at a? by stitching or sewing or in any desired manner; but the bottom part a7 may be formed integrally with the back and sides, if desired.

Extending entirely around the bottom portion of the garment and at the point as, where the bottom portion a7 is secured, and on the outside of the garment is a strap or band b, which is permanently attached to said garment by stitching or otherwise, and said strap or band is composed of tape or any suitable flexible fabric, and in the form of construction shown the opposite side portions of the garment are provided with reinforcing-strips b2, which extend from the strap or band b at the front of the garment up over the shoulders and down to the strap or band l) at the back of the garment. The seams at a3, where the back a and side portions a2 of the garment are connected, are also covered by reinforcing-strips b3, which extend from the armholes a" downwardly and backwardly to the band l), and similar reinforcing-strips b4 are arranged between the front portions of the strips b2 and the strips b3 and extend from the armholes c downwardly to the band b, and the strips b2, 3, and bl are preferably composed of binding-tape or other similar fabric.

The back part a, of the garment is provided at the inner side thereof with a reinforcingpiece c, which covers the entire upper' inner part of said back part a and extends to the neckopening a, to the armholes c4, and downwardly, as shown at c?, to a point midway between the armholes and the strap or band b, and the bottom portion of which is folded upwardly, as shown at c2, and stitched to the back part a of the garment transversely thereof and also to the body portion of the reinforcing-piece c, as shown at c3, and the neck-opening c, the armholes a", and all the outer edges of the garment, including the front edges of the side portions c2 and the bottom portion of the garment, are preferably provided with a binding 0*.

The buttons c", which connect the side por- IOO IOS

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tions of the garment at the-front thereof, are secured to a vertically-arranged flexible and detachable strip d at the inner side of one of the side portions a2 of the garment, and secured to the bottom portion of said strip is a similar fiexible and detachable strip d2, also on the inner side of the garment and extending approximately around the same, and the strip d2 is also provided at d3 with buttons which are arranged to correspond with the position of the lower ends of the strips b2 and b4 at the front of the garment and which are adapted to bepassed through buttonholes d4 at these points and as shown in Fig. 5, and in the form of construction shown the strip d2, which is on the inner side of the garment, is directly over the strap or band b, which is on the outer side of the garment, and the buttons d3 serve to hold the strip d2 in proper position, and it will be understood that the strips cl and cl2 may be detached from the garment whenever desired.

Secured to the strip d2 at the point where the buttons d3 are passed through buttonholes d4 at the front lower ends of the reinforcing-strips b4 are flexible suspending-straps e, which are passed out through slots or openings 62, formed in the side portions a2 of the garment, and these suspending-straps are formed intovloops e3, with which are connected buckles or similar devices e4, with which are connected straps e5, which serve as supports for the stockings, and the loops e3 of the straps e are provided with supplemental depending members e6, having buttons e7, whereby the bottom of the under waist or vest may be connected with the waistband of the lower garments. Neither the buckle e4 nor the strap e5 is shown in Fig. 5; but these parts are shown at the left-hand side of Fig. 1, and the button e7 and supplemental member or strap e",withwhich it is connected, are shown at the right-hand side of Fig. 1.

The buttons e7 at the front of the bottom portion of the garment are intended for connection with the lower garments at the front, and I also provide other supports for the lower garments at the back, and these supports consist of flexible straps f, three of which are shown, and these straps are buttoned to the part of the fold c2 at the bottom of the reinforcing member c of the back a of the garment, this connection being indicated in dotted lines at2 in Fig. 3 and shown in section in Fig. 4, and the straps f are passed outwardly through slits or slotsf3 in the bottom portion of the back of the garment and are provided with buttons f 4 for connection with the waistband at the back of the lower garments, and the middle strap f is longer than the other straps f, as shown in Fig. 2, and is provided at its lower end with a supplemental button f5, which is designed to form a connection and support for the lower undergarments. As thus constructed it will be seen that the straps f are detachable from the garment in the same manner as the straps d and d2, and all these parts may be detached When it is desired to launder the garment and replaced in position when it is desired to use the garment.

In Fig. 6 I have shown a modification of the suspending strap or device e shown in Fig. 5, and in this modification both ends of said strap are connected with the strip dand said strip is formed into two loops e8 and e9, and the button e7 is connected with the lower loop e, while the supplemental suspendingstrap e5, which is designed to form a stockingsupport, is connected with the loop e* by means of a buckle, safety-pin, or similar device g.

In Figs. 9 and 10 I have shown another modification of the strap attachment or suspending device shown in Figs. 4 and 6, andin this form of construction the strap e is formed into a single loop h, the front upper part of which is provided with eyelets h2, by means of which a safety-pin or other fastening device hs, to which the supplemental suspending-strap e5 is secured, is connected therewith, and the button e7 is secured to the lower part of the loop h, as clearly shown in said figures.

In Figs. 7 and 8 I have shown a modification in which my improvement or a part thereof is applied to the back i of a shirt-waist or similar garment, and in this construction I secure to the inner side of the back of the shirt-waist a reinforcing-piece i2, which extends from the neck-opening L3 downwardly to a point just above the waist-line, as shown at i4, andthe lower endyof the reinforcingstrip i2 is folded inwardly and upwardly and stitched to the back i of the shirt-waist and to the body portion of said reinforcing-strip, as shown at i5. In this form of construction flexible straps y', similar to the straps f in Fig. 4, are buttoned to the bottom fold at t4 of the reinforcing-piece i2, as shown at y'z, and these straps are passed through a reinforcing-strip j, secured to the back of the shirt-waist and outwardly through said back, as shown at j, and each of said straps is provided with a button y', and the middle strap is longer than the straps at the opposite sides thereof and is provided with a supplemental button y, and the straps y' are intended for the same purpose as the straps (Shown in Figs. 3 and 4.)

The reinforce-piece c, secured to the back a, of the garment yshown in Figs. 1 to 4, inclusive, is also provided with a flexible loop 7c, which is secured thereto centrally ofthe bottom fold thereof and through which the detachable strap d2 is passed, so as to support said strap centrally of the back.

It will be apparent that my improvements may be applied to any kind or class of a washable vest, jacket, or shirt-waist, and by means of my improvement I am enabled to ZOY detach all the suspending and fastening devices, including those which hold the garment together at the front, and whenever it is desired to wash the garment all of said devices are removed therefrom, and this can be quickly, conveniently, and easily done, and said devices may be reattached to the garment whenever desired in the same manner.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a garment of the class described, the combination with the body thereof having a band encircling the same at the waist, said garment having openings at the front thereof, and said band having slits below the openings ofthe body, of a band arranged at the inner side of the body and provided with fastening devices which engage said openings of `the body for detachably connecting the band therewith, and suspending devices connected to said inner band and projected through the slits of the outer band.

2. In a garment of the class described, the combination with the body thereof, of a reinforced member arranged at the back of said body and extending from the upper portion thereof to the waist, said reinforced member having a fold formed at its lower end separated from the back of the garment, the latter having a series of slits in the back at a point below the fold of the reinforced member, and suspending devices projected through said slits, the upper ends of said suspending devices having fasteners connected to said fold and positioned between the same and the back of the body, whereby said fasteners are free from Contact with the undergarments of the wearer, and the lower end of said suspending devices having fastening devices connected thereto.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname, in presence of the subscribing witnesses, this 12th day of March, 1904.

FRANK A. PLATZ.

Witnesses:

F. A. STEWART. (l. E. MULREANY. 

